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Selma 50th anniversary

20 March 2015

  • Martin Luther King leads the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, 21 March 1965

    From the Guardian archive
    Selma to Montgomery: Martin Luther King and the march for freedom

    On 21 March 1965, after a months-long battle, the freedom march finally set off from Selma to Montgomery to lobby for voter registration. Here’s how the Guardian and Observer covered the struggle

10 March 2015

  • The Selma confederates

    The Confederates still defending slavery in Selma

  • 140x84 trailpic for The Selma confederates

    The Selma Confederates: 'I want to protect, defend and preserve my white race' – video

9 March 2015

  • Selma Commemorates 50th Anniversary Of Historic Civil Rights March

    Bloody Sunday veterans in Selma, Alabama, 50 years on – video

  • Edmund Pettus bridge, Selma

    Eric Holder, Martin Luther King III mark 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma – video

8 March 2015

  • Edmund Pettus Bridge

    Holder and Obama mark Selma events with call for voting rights protections

    Attorney general and president attack 2013 supreme court decision which invalidated part of Voting Rights Act passed after memorialised events of 1965
  • Barack Obama, John Lewis

    Representative John Lewis 'live' tweets Bloody Sunday – as he saw and felt it

    Georgia congressman who participated in iconic civil rights protest 50 years ago says in introduction of Obama: ‘We come to Selma to be renewed’

    • Selma church choir rallies spirits before 50th anniversary service - video

    • How Selma changed the world: City honors 'LBJ' and voting legislation

    • Kentucky GOP leadership greenlights Rand Paul's plan for dual campaigns

7 March 2015

  • Obama, Selma

    Obama in Selma: Ferguson report shows civil rights 'march is not yet finished'

  • Obama delivers remarks at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama

    Obama: Selma helped determine nation's destiny - video

  • Obama, Pettus Bridge

    Barack Obama speaks in Selma 50 years after 'Bloody Sunday' – in pictures

  • Demonstrators march over the Brooklyn Bridge to mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark event of the civil rights movement in Selma, Ala., on Saturday, March 7, 2015, in New York. Fifty years ago marchers crossing a bridge in Selma for a voting rights demonstration were beaten by police in a confrontation called "Bloody Sunday."(AP Photo/John Minchillo)

    Selma solidarity demonstrators march across Brooklyn Bridge

  • Barack Obama address on civil rights in Selma, Alabama – full text

  • 'Selma is now' says Obama ahead of visit to highlight abusive justice system

  • Steven W Thrasher column
    There is still no racial justice in America in the years post-Selma

    Steven W Thrasher

  • Selma's 'bloody Sunday' 50 years on – video

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